Co-sponsored by American University Washington College of Law

Lecturer: Professor Antony Anghie, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law

Discussant: Anne Marie Slaughter, US Department of State

Co-sponsored by the Arbitral Women and by the ABA International Law Section Women’s Interest Network

Co-sponsored by American University Washington College of Law

This session includes posters from emerging scholars and practitioners doing innovative work. Please support these new voices by visiting their poster presentations during the reception.

• Ulrike Barten: Minorities and the Right to Internal Self-Determination – Facing Changes in International Law
• Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharya: Developing Norms, Interpreting Treating and Adjudicating Disputes at the Intersection of Global Health, International Law, and Human Rights
• Kathryn Bryk Friedman, University at Buffalo School of Law: All Politics (or International Law) is Local
• Anna Spain, University of Colorado-Boulder Law School: Integration Matters: The Emerging Architecture of International Dispute Resolution
• Linda Tashbook, University of Pittsburgh: Releasing Captured Documents
• Claus Zimmerman, University of Oxford: A Contemporary Concept of Monetary Sovereignty and its Implications in a Time of Change

Co-sponsored by the Law of the Sea Interest Group

Learn how to make the most of your ASIL membership; hear from ASIL officers and leaders; and meet other new colleagues.

Co-sponsored by the Law of the Sea Interest Group

This panel of experts will assess the status of the Fish Stocks Agreement (FSA) and high seas fisheries management and conservation efforts eight years after the entry into force of the FSA. Topics to be considered include the role and success of regional fisheries management organizations and the ongoing battle against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

Moderator: Bernard Oxman, University of Miami School of Law

Panelists:

• David A. Balton, U.S. Department of State
• David Freestone, George Washington University School of Law
• Eva Vázquez, Faculty of Law and Economics-University of Cordoba

Within recent years there has been an explosion of empirical work within international legal scholarship. This research utilizes qualitative and quantitative methodologies from disciplines such as political science, economics, sociology, and anthropology. This roundtable will assess this scholarship, its contribution to international legal thinking, and its potential future directions.

Moderator: Tonya Putnam, Columbia Law School

Panelists:

• Elizabeth Andersen, American Society of International Law
• Elena Baylis, University of Pittsburg School of Law
• Susan Franck, Washington & Lee University
• Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago Law School
• Janet Levit, University of Tulsa, College of Law

This roundtable is convened in honor of Professor Virginia Leary (1926-2009), a groundbreaking international legal scholar and human rights advocate. Session participants will discuss cutting-edge approaches to the promotion and implementation of social and economic human rights, including non-discrimination and equality rights, workers' rights, and rights to housing, food, health, and education.

Moderator: Barbara Stark, Hofstra University School of Law

Panelists:

• Philip Alston, New York University School of Law
• Andrew Clapham, Graduate Institute of International Studies Institute
• Gay McDougall, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Mona Rishmawi, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Alicia Ely Yamin, Harvard Law School

This panel will consider the relationship between international human rights law and sovereign immunity in the context of proceedings brought in national courts. This relationship is implicated in both the Samantar v. Yousuf case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, which concerns a suit for damages brought in a U.S. court against a Somali official under the Alien Tort Statute, and the Germany v. Italy case pending before the International Court of Justice, which concerns World War II-era reparation proceedings brought against Germany in Italian courts.

Moderator: Curtis Bradley, Duke University School of Law

Panelists:

• Rosanne van Alebeek, University of Amsterdam
• Sarah Cleveland, U.S. Department of State
• Michael Edney, Gibson Dunn
• Samuel Estreicher, New York University

The Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda are slated to close over the next few years. A roundtable of experts will explore key legal and policy issues surrounding the closures of these three tribunals and of others in the future.

Moderator: Valerie Oosterveld, University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law

Panelists:

• Kelly Askin, Open Society Justice Initiative
• Anne Joyce, U.S. Department of State
• Huw Llewellyn, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs
• Giorgia Totora, Special Tribunal for Lebanon Liaison Office

This panel examines the role of the WTO in mediating the irreconcilable tension between science and policy choices surrounding risk management. A series of trans-Atlantic trade disputes manifest the critical interpretive divergence between differing perceptions of risk management in the context of new technologies, new diseases and new visions of social health and welfare. Beginning with the question of whether the WTO should adjudicate this kind of question, the panel will consider what might be a desirable role of the WTO tribunal here: a judge, mediator or facilitator. The panel is intended to provide a critical yet constructive discourse on this relatively new phenomenon.

Moderator: John Jackson, Georgetown University

Panelists:

• Sungjoon Cho, Chicago-Kent College of Law
• Tracey Epps, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade
• Gregory Shaffer, University of Minnesota Law School
• Annecoos Wiersema, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University

ASIL continues its tradition of featuring the scholarship of students and new professionals (academic or non-academic) who have been working in the field of international law for seven years or less. Chosen through a highly competitive selection process, the new voices in this session are emblematic of the promise of a new generation of scholars.

Moderator: Edith Brown Weiss, Georgetown University Law Center

Panelists:

• Harlan Grant Cohen, University of Georgia School of Law: "From International Law to International Conflicts of Law: The Fragmentation of Legitimacy"
• Mairead Enright, University College Cork, Faculty of Law: "Too Fertile Forces and Inhospitable Terrain"
• Alexandra R. Harrington, McGill University, Faculty of Law: "Citizens of the World"
• Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer, Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law: "Engaging Religious Laws, Players and Communities"

Discussion will highlight opportunities to teach international students in the U.S. and abroad and the contrasting rhetorical and ethical preferences among legal cultures, emphasizing how those contrasts play out in the law classroom and the law office. Special curricular issues arising when we teach international students will also be examined.

Moderator: Thomas M. McDonnell, Pace University School of Law

Panelists:

• Diane Edelman, Villanova University
• Jill Ramsfield, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai'i - MÄ�noa

The Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (the Goldstone Report) has given rise to sharp disagreements about the operation of international humanitarian law in modern asymmetric warfare. Two legal experts will offer divergent opinions and exchange views on legal aspects of Israel's 2009 military intervention into the Gaza Strip.

Moderator: Lucy F. Reed, President, ASIL and Commissioner, Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission

Panelists:

• Abraham Bell, University of San Diego School of Law
• Omar Dajani, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of law

This panel will focus on the engagement of international economic law, including trade and cross-border tax, to advocate for indigenous peoples' rights to their traditional lands and resources. Participants will discuss indigenous peoples' participation in NAFTA and WTO proceedings. Participants will also address recent developments, including the settlement of Glamis Gold v. US.

Moderator: Lillian Aponte Miranda, Florida International University College of Law

Panelists:

• Tim Coulter, Indian Law Resource Center
• Leonardo Crippa, Indian Law Resource Center
• James Hopkins, Indigenous Peoples' Law and Policy Program, University of Arizona Rogers College of Law
• Todd Weiller, Arbitration Specialist Counsel

The devastating earthquake in Haiti, already one of the poorest countries in the world, has triggered a massive humanitarian crisis. This roundtable will discuss the international and transnational legal implications of the crisis, with a particular emphasis on legal frameworks for disaster preparedness, movement of people, especially children slated for adoption or in need of medical assistance; and international trade.

Moderator: Hope Lewis, Northeastern University School of Law

Panelists:

• Muzaffar Chishti, MPI Office at NYU School of Law
• Janet Lord, BlueLaw International LLP and Harvard Law School Project on Disability
• Claire Nelson, Institute of Caribbean Studies
• Jonathan Todres, Georgia State University College of Law

Public goods tend to be undervalued and overused. This moderated roundtable will discuss legal challenges to protecting and promoting global public goods on the domestic, regional and global scale. The panel will pay particular attention to the roles that law plays or might play in creating, maintaining, and distributing public goods in a world where externalities increasingly spill over national borders and global capacities are being exhausted.

Moderator: Rebecca Bratspies, City University of New York, School of Law

Panelists:

• Anna van Aaken, University of St. Gallen, Max Planck Institute
• Victoria Henson-Apollonio, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
• Sabrina Safrin, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Boumediene v. Bush marked a watershed in U.S. jurisprudence on the extraterritorial reach of constitutional rights. In the United States and elsewhere, courts are being asked to determine when domestic and regional rights regimes constrain government action abroad. This roundtable will discuss competing approaches to extraterritorial rights in light of current and pending cases.

Moderator: Chimène Keitner, University of California-Hastings College of Law

Panelists:

• Douglas Letter, U.S. Department of Justice
• Sabine Nölke, Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs
• Kal Raustiala, University of California-Los Angeles
• Ralph Wilde, University College London

This panel will explore the intersection of the General Agreement on Trade in Services, (GATS), on the one hand, and norms of international human rights law, on the other. The panel will present a variety of perspectives and discuss examples in areas such as health, water and education services and how GATS commitments affect access and affordability of these services for diverse populations including women and children.

Moderator: James Thuo Gathii, Albany Law School

Panelists:

• Obijifor Aginam, United Nations University
• Jane Kelsey, University of Auckland
• Marion Panizzon, World Trade Institute
• Michael Santoro, Rutgers Business School

Change is nowhere more apparent, and more resistant, than global trends in legal education. The Carnegie Foundation and Best Practices reports in the U.S., and the Bologna process in Europe, both attempt to balance the theory-practice dichotomy in law school pedagogy. This is apparent in the global explosion of clinical legal education, broadly, and international human rights as clinical subject-matter, specifically. This panel will explore those developments.

Moderator: Richard Wilson, American University, Washington College of Law

Panelists:

• Bernard Duhaime, University of Quebec-Human Rights Clinic
• Lusine Hovhannisian, Public Interest Law Initiative
• Deena Hurwitz, University of Virginia School of Law
• Hector Olasolo, Utrecht International Law Clinic

Moderator: Marcia Wiss, Hogan & Hartson LLP

Honoree/Speaker: Professor Dinah Shelton, George Washington University

This panel will explore the deep and persistent challenges facing NATO and American forces operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan, generating insights into the capacity of international humanitarian law to limit suffering in counterinsurgency warfare and the extent to which forces are, in fact, meeting their obligations under the law.

Moderator: Mary Ellen O'Connell, University of Notre Dame Law School

Panelists:

• Paul Pillar, Center for Peace and Security Studies, Georgetown University
• John Radsan, William Mitchell College of Law
• Hina Shamsi, New York University School of Law
• Ganesh Sitaraman, Harvard Law School

This panel will explore evolving trends at the intersection of international treaty law and domestic law. Panelists will discuss the extent to which treaties increasingly address issues affecting the internal laws and procedures of States Parties, and the domestic enforceability of such treaties.

Moderator: Avril Haines, U.S. Department of State

Panelists:

• Johanna Bond, Washington & Lee Law School
• Andrew Keller, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• Stephen Rickard, Open Society Policy Center
• Mallory Stewart, U.S. Department of State

Panelists will discuss the legal and political implications of Cuba's reinsertion in the inter-American system,including Cuba's ongoing relations with Western hemisphere countries and with international organizations; last year's OAS General Assembly Resolution whereby the 1962 OAS Ministers of Foreign Affairs' Resolution ceased to have effect; and other recent developments.

Moderator: Lorena Perez, Organization of American States

Panelists:

• William Berenson, Organization of American States, Department of Legal Services
• Daniel Erikson, Inter-American Dialogue
• Tom Farer, Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
• Sarah Stevens, Center for Democracy in the Americas

The march to sign regional trade agreements in Asia proceeds unabated. How are these agreements affecting legal and economic relationships in Asia? Do they merely reflect economic realities on the ground or do they create new realities in trade, investment, intellectual property and other cross-border issues? The interest group will examine these questions with respect to several existing and proposed agreements.

Moderator: Elizabeth Chien-Hale, Apple Inc.

Panelists:

• Karl Ehlers, U.S. Trade Representative's Office
• Sek Wannamethee, Royal Thai Embassy

Co-sponsored by the Africa, International Environmental Law, and the Teaching International Law Interest Groups

Natural resources frequently play a significant role in post-conflict peacebuilding, a budding international law field. This session will assess experiences in post-conflict natural resource management and peacebuilding and suggest ways that international administrative/organizational law, international humanitarian law and international environmental law should be strengthened to improve post-conflict peacebuilding. The session is co-sponsored by the Africa, International Environmental Law, and the Teaching International Law Interest Groups.

Moderator: Itzchak Kornfeld, Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Presenter: Carl Bruch, Environmental Law Institute

Speakers:

• Cymie Payne, UC-Berkeley School of Law
• Jessica J. Troell, Environmental Law Institute
• Mohamed Yaya, United Nations Development Program

Join the annual gathering of the ASIL community, to remember our members who have passed away and celebrate the accomplishments of this year’s award winners. Agenda includes:

In memoriam: Thomas N. Franck (by Dame Rosalyn Higgins) • Ian Brownlie (by Professor Vaughan Lowe) • Virginia Leary (by Dean Makau Mutua)

Election of New Officers and Executive Council
Presentation of Honors: Goler T. Butcher Medal: Juan Mendez
Honorary Member: Julio A. Lacarte Muro
Presentation of Certificates of Merit for Scholarship
For preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship:
Beth Simmons, Mobilizing for Human Rights
For high technical craftsmanship and utility to practicing lawyers and scholars: Chester Brown, A Common Law of International Adjudication
For a contribution in a specialized area of law: Mark Osiel, The End of Reciprocity

Because international law itself is a living and ever-changing phenomenon, international legal education, while starting in law schools, must continue in accessible form in many settings around the globe. After a key-note address by President Higgins, drawing on her rich experience as a leading scholar, teacher, advocate and international judge, there will be a presentation of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law, the first virtual international law training and research center, highlighting its unique potential for contributing to international legal education.

Introduction: Mahnoush H. Arsanjani, former Director, Codification Division of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs

Speaker: Rosalyn Higgins, Former President of the International Court of Justice

Presentation of the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law: Deirdre O. Schell, Legal Officer, Codification Division of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs

Co-Sponsored by Georgetown University Law Center

Speaker: Harold H. Koh, Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State

Co-Sponsored by Georgetown University Law Center

Co-sponsored by Arnold & Porter, LLP

All current and former staff of the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser are welcome.

All ILM contributing editors and members of the ILM Editorial Advisory Committee are welcome.

Fourteen years after the defeat of apartheid, South Africa’s fledgling democracy is acclaimed for its constitutional promise of comprehensive human rights and unprecedented judicial reform. But what is essential for transformation to succeed? “Courting Justice� profiled indomitable female judges charged with the task of advancing those rights and enacting transitional justice while confronting the challenges of a male dominated institution. Ruth B. Cowan, creator of the film, will be on hand to answer question from the audience following the screening.are welcome.

This session includes posters from emerging scholars and practitioners doing innovative work. Please support these new voices by visiting their poster presentations during the reception.

• Erin Louise Palmer, DC Court of Appeals: The Role of International Institutions in Preventing Amnesty for Human Rights Abusers: Lessons from the Chilean Experience
• Rodrigo Polanco Lazo: International Arbitration in Times of Change: Fairness and Transparency in Investor-State Disputes
• Suzanne Katzenstein, Columbia University: Still Safe to be King? Domestic Courts, Foreign Sovereign Immunity and Human Rights
• Katerina Novotna: Kosovo – Laboratory of the International Community? Role of International Law in the Re-Establishment of the Rule of Law in Kosovo
• Sa Yu, Faculty of Law, University of Ottowa: TRIPS Patent Provisions as an International Law of Innovation and Development
• Misa Zgonec-Roze: Judicial review by the EU and Domestic Courts of the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Regime: Counter-Terrorism, Due Process and the Search for the Golden Mean

Interest Group business meeting and discussion of current law of war developments, including the new Department of Defense Law of War Manual; the U.S. position on Additional Protocols I and II; and the impact of recent NGO publications (HPCR Air and Missile Warfare Manual, the ICRC Direct Participation in Hostilities Study, and the ICRC Customary International Law Study) on military practice.

Moderator: Jane Dalton, formerly of the Navy JAG Corps and U.S. Department of State L/PM

Panelists:

• Brigadier General Tom Ayres, Army JAG Corps
• Rebecca Ingber, U.S. Department of State Legal/Political Military Affairs
• Eric Jensen, Fordham University Law School

Co-sponsored by the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and International Environmental Law Interest Groups

This panel will examine how international law can address environmental justice concerns. In particular, participants will discuss the possibilities and limits of strategies grounded in human rights law, reflecting on recent developments before UN and regional human rights bodies, as well as litigation before domestic courts. Participants will further evaluate international law approaches to environmental justice beyond human rights.

Moderator: John H. Knox, Wake Forest School of Law

Panelists:

• Deepa Badrinarayana, Chapman University School of Law
• Edward Cameron, World Bank, Social Development Department
• Daniel Magraw, Center for International Environmental Law

Co-sponsored by the International Refugee Law Interest Group

High levels of corruption in a society are likely to prevent a State from fulfilling its duties to respect, protect, and fulfill the human rights of its citizens. This panel will explore the relationship between corruption and human rights, and how the evolving international and national anti-corruption regimes dovetail with rules of international human rights law.

Moderator: Makau Mutua, University at Buffalo Law School

Panelists:

• Joel Barkan, University of Iowa
• Joel Ngugi, University of Washington School of Law
• Leslye Obiora, University of Arizona Rogers College of Law
• Julio Bacio-Terracino, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Co-sponored by the Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament Interest Group

This panel will explore challenges faced by the Obama Administration in the arms control and disarmament field, including U.S.-Russia arms control efforts, developing an international framework to manage the risks of the nuclear fuel cycle, monitoring compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and obtaining Senate advice and consent to ratification of treaties in this field, such as the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.

Moderator: Michael J. Matheson, George Washington University Law School

Panelists:

• David Koplow, Georgetown University Law Center
• Newell Highsmith, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser
• Michael Mattler, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Social networking, mobile technologies, and wiki software offer new opportunities for fostering citizen participation in international law and institutions but also pose administrative complexities. This roundtable of academics and practitioners will consider the benefits and risks of open government, citizen activism, and technology for international law and institutions.

Moderator: Molly Beutz Land, New York Law School

Panelists:

• Robert Guerra, Freedom House
• Sameer Padania, The Hub
• Renee Redman, Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
• Robyn Sturm, The White House, Office of Science and Technology

ASIL continues its tradition of featuring the scholarship of students and new professionals (academic or non-academic) who have been working in the field of international law for seven years or less. Chosen through a highly competitive selection process, the new voices in this session are emblematic of the promise of a new generation of scholars.

Moderator: Claudio Grossman, Washington College of Law

Panelists:

• Neha Jain, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law: "Developing a Structural Framework for Parties to an International Crime: Towards a Capacious Concept of Principalship"
• Kimberley N. Trapp, University of Cambridge: "WTO Inconsistent Countermeasures -- A View from the Outside"
• Julie Veroff, University of Oxford: "Justice Administration in Meheba Refugee Settlement: Refugee Perceptions, Preferences, and Strategic Decisions"
• Andrew Woods, University of Cambridge: "A Behavioral Approach to Human Rights"

This roundtable discussion will focus on current issues in Alien Tort Statute litigation, including corporate liability, sovereign immunity, and developments in Samantar, Talisman and the In re South African Apartheid cases. Formal presentations will be short to allow ample time for questions and discussion by members of the audience.

Moderator: Ingrid Wuerth, Vanderbilt University Law School

Panelists:

• Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, Ropes & Gray LLP
• Julian Ku, Hofstra Law
• Beth Stephens, Rutgers Camden Law

The panelists will provide their analysis of the current context for international economic law and policy, including international and bilateral trade negotiations and dispute settlement, reassessment of the U.S. model Bilateral Investment Treaty, and developments in international financial regulation. The presentations will be followed by a 15-minute business meeting of the ASIL International Economic Law interest group (from 10.15-10-30).

Moderator: Amelia Porges, Law Offices of Amelia Porges LLC

Panelists:

• Mark Kantor, U.S. Department of State's Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy and Georgetown University Law Center
• Cynthia, Lichtenstein, Boston College Law School
• Tim Reif, USTR General Counsel
• Robert Stumberg, Georgetown University Law Center

Co-sponsored by the International Environmental Law Interest Group

This Round Table will look at the role of non-state actors in the establishment and implementation of an international climate change regime. Panelists will consider civil society and private sector involvement; individual, collective and intergenerational rights and responsibilities; and the status of international climate agreements following the Copenhagen negotiations.

Moderator: Jaye Ellis, McGill University, Faculty of Law and School of Environment

Panelists:

• Elizabeth Burleson, University of South Dakota School of Law
• Naomi Roht-Arriaza, University of California, Hastings College of Law
• William L. Thomas, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP

Co-sponsored by the International Legal Theory Interest Group

The Restatement of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States (Third) was adopted over 20 years ago in 1986. This session will explore whether the changes in the world and in international law since that time necessitate a comprehensive new restatement or updates to portions of the existing one.

Moderator: David P. Stewart, Georgetown Law Center

Panelists:

• Barry Carter, Georgetown Law Center
• Oona Hathaway, Yale Law School
• Margaret McKeown, U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
• Jide Nzelibe, Northwestern University School of Law

A roundtable of experts will compare the policies of the Obama Administration on such issues as treatment standards for terrorist detainees, transfer and interrogation practices, detention policy (including at Guantanamo and Bagram), military commissions, and the scope of the conflict with al Qaeda and the Taliban with those of the Bush Administration, and assess how they measure up as a matter of international law.

Moderator: Gabor Rona, Human Rights First

Panelists:

• Diane Amann, UC Davis School of Law
• Susan Baker Manning, Bingham McCutchen
• John Bellinger, Arnold & Porter
• Marco Sassoli, University of Geneva
• Brad Wiegmann, U.S. Department of Justice, National Security Division

Co-sponsored by the International Courts and Tribunals Interest Group

This session will explore the extent to which African courts have increasingly relied upon foreign law or resorted to rules of international law in their decision making. It will analyze instances in which courts have done so, and assess the benefits and limitations of these approaches.

Moderator: Angela Banks, William & Mary School of Law

Panelists:

• Erika George, S.J. Quinney College of Law
• Obiora Okafor, Osgoode Hall Law School

Co-sponsored by the International Economic Law Interest Group

The recent financial crisis has cast in sharp relief the intertwined dynamics of both coordination and conflict in the international legal order. Across varied regulatory spheres, attempts to respond to the crisis have necessitated a negotiation of the balance between cooperation and competition in a global marketplace. This panel will explore the implications of the financial crisis for competition among exchanges for securities listings, and of harmonization of international accounting standards and derivatives regulation. The panel will also examine other reforms, including an alternative global reserve currency. The panel will highlight the dynamics of coordination and conflict in reforming the architecture of global finance.

Moderator: Anupam Chander, University of California, Davis-School of Law

Panelists:

• Robert B. Ahdieh, Emory University
• Donald C. Langevoort, Georgetown University Law Center
• Barbara C. Matthews, BCM International Regulatory Analytics LLC
• Joel Trachtman, Tufts University

This session will address issues relating to the obligations of occupying powers to refugees, such as: Does an occupying power carry primary responsibility for the protection of people whose lives were specifically affected by its actions, for refugees "created" by war or intervention, irrespective of the legitimacy of those acts? Do such obligations extend beyond the time of occupation and what is the relationship between prolonged occupation and refugee status?

Moderator: Tom Syring, UNE / Norwegian Immigration Appeals Board

Panelists:

• Susan Akram, Boston University
• Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Temple University
• Steven M Schneebaum, Greenberg Traurig, LLP
• Raymond Tanter, Iran Policy Committee and Georgetown University

Issues to be addressed include options for reaching agreement with Iran; how the April 2010 Global Nuclear Summit and May 2010 Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference should address Iran's program, implement lessons from it, and prevent further unraveling of the NPT; and sanctions, use of force, and other enforcement options.

Moderator: Arthur Shulman, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control

Panelists:

• Ilan Berman, Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council
• Cmdr. Chris Bidwell, U.S. Department of Defense
• Jacqueline Shire, Institute for Science and International Security
• Sharon Squassoni, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Co-sponsored by the International Economic Law Interest Group

The global financial crisis has precipitated considerable debate about implementing institutional reforms at international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF in order to improve legitimacy, accountability, and effectiveness. Many of the reform proposals specifically relate to increasing the voice and representation of developing countries. This panel, which includes the World Bank's Senior Vice President and Group General Counsel and the IMF's General Counsel and Director, Legal Department and other experts on IFI reform, will explore the prospect for governance reform at international financial institutions with respect to vote allocations, decision-making structure, and leadership selection, as well as the process of such reforms. The panel will also consider changing power relations in the international system and the role of international financial institutions in an evolving global political economy.

Moderator: Daniel Bradlow, American University, Washington College of Law and University of Pretoria

Panelists:

• Jo Marie Greisgraber, New Rules for Global Finance
• Sean Hagan, International Monetary Fund
• David Hunter, American University, Washington College of Law
• Anne-Marie Leroy, World Bank
• Domenico Lombardi, The Oxford Institute for Economic Policy

Co-sponsored by the International Legal Theory Interest Group

This roundtable session focuses on the contributions of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), Critical Race Theory, and other important scholarly movements at the margins of international law to its theoretical innovation. It will analyze the alternative accounts of international law regarding developing countries and peoples of color offered by these movements.

Moderator: Jeanne M. Woods, Loyola University College of Law

Panelists:

• Siba Grovogui, Johns Hopkins University
• Balakrishnan (Raj) Rajagopal, International Development Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Henry Richardson III, Beasley School of Law, Temple University

Co-sponsored by the Women in International Law Interest Group

UN treaty monitoring bodies, regional mechanisms and high courts around the world have increasingly considered cases involving reproductive health and sexual rights as raising questions of human rights. Topics addressed will include access to therapeutic abortion, recognition of same sex marriage and relationships, HIV/AIDS prevention and human rights, and maternal mortality.

Moderator: Nancy Northup, Center for Reproductive Rights

Panelists:

• Joanna N. Erdman, University of Toronto
• Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School Center for Gender and Sexuality Law
• Aura Katzive, Wellspring Advisors
• Kathleen Lahey, Queen's University

Do the existing laws of war deal adequately, if at all, with war in cyberspace? The panel will explore this and related questions, assessing how existing international law translates into war in cyberspace and what, if any, adjustments might be required to accommodate the new realities of war in an information age.

Moderator: Duncan Hollis, Temple University School of Law

Panelists:

• Jack Beard, University of California-Los Angeles, School of Law
• Eliana Davidson, U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the General Counsel
• Knut Doermann, International Committee of the Red Cross
• Robin Geiss, International Committee of the Red Cross
• Herb Lin, National Research Council of the National Academies

International law has played a key role in the debate about Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence and claim to statehood. International law and organizations are also playing a key role in efforts to build "state" structures and institutions within Kosovo. Participants in this session will explore these issues and the controversies surrounding them.

Moderator: Lori Damrosch, Columbia Law School

Panelists:

• Steven Hill, International Civilian Office/European Union Special Representative in Kosovo
• Milena Sterio, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
• Paul Williams, American University, Washington College of Law
• David Wippman, University of Minnesota Law School

This panel will provide an overview of the impacts of the financial crisis on bilateral trade regimes and multilateral trade negotiations, in particular through increased protectionism, as well as investment treaty development and implication. The panel will conclude with an integrated discussion of the prospects and any lessons learned.

Moderator: Eckhard R. Hellbeck, White & Case LLP

Panelists:

• Padideh Ala'i, American University, Washington College of Law
• Chris Brummer, Georgetown University School of Law
• Jeffrey Commission, Freshfields, Bruckhaus, Deringer
• Elizabeth Trujillo, Suffolk University Law School

Co-sponsored by the International Legal Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Interest Groups

This roundtable will address bottom-up strategies that contest the international status quo regarding the distribution of global resources. In particular, participants will draw insights from "on-the-ground" case studies to examine the tension between the engagement of human rights and the engagement of other spheres of international law relevant to development.

Moderator: Berta Hernández-Truyol, UF Levin College of Law

Panelists:

• Eleanor Brown
• Ibrahim Gassama, University of Oregon School of Law
• Ernesto Hernández-Lopez, Chapman University School of Law
• Chantal Thomas, Cornell University Law School

This panel will consider legal dialogue among national, regional, and international actors and the ability of these interactions to create a human rights-based hierarchy and to change legal, cultural, and social norms. Panelists will discuss national and regional courts' review of international bodies' decisions and interactions between judicial decisions and transnational networks.

Moderator: Erika de Wet, University of Amsterdam and University of Pretoria

Panelists:

• Eyal Benvenisti, Tel Aviv University
• Jutta Brunnée, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law
• Patricia Wald, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (former Judge)
• Melissa A. Waters, Washington & Lee University School of Law

Co-sponsored by the International Refugee Law Interest Group

This panel will reflect upon the major contributions of Tom Franck (1931-2009) to the law governing resort to force. Panelists will frame their responses around selected chapters of his seminal book Recourse to Force, including the United Nations and the use of force, the parameters of self-defense under Article 51, the use of force against terrorism, and humanitarian intervention.

Moderator: Rosalyn Higgins, International Court of Justice

Panelists:

• Jordan Paust, University of Houston Law Center
• W. Michael Reisman, Yale Law School
• Dan Sarooshi, University of Oxford
• Fernando Tesón, Florida State University, College of Law

Co-sponsored by the International Economic Law Interest Group and Women in International Law Interest Groups

In June 2009, Meg Kinnear became the first full-time Secretary-General of the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). This discussion with Secretary-General Kinnear will explore her plans for ICSID and discuss matters, such as the increasing use of public international law in investor-state arbitration, increasing arbitral regional and gender diversity, transparency, administrative efficiency and costs, and careers in international arbitration.

Moderator: David Caron, University of California, Berkley Law

Panelists:

• Meg Kinnear, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes

The Nazis stole more art than any regime in history. Claims to art displaced during the Holocaust still circulating in the market, touching multiple legal regimes, are exploding. This panel will explore the pros and cons of establishing a Holocaust-looted artwork commission and how such a commission should be structured.

Moderator: Jennifer Anglim Kreder, Northern Kentucky University, Chase College of Law

Panelists:

• Stuart Eizenstat, U.S. Delegation to the Prague Holocaust Era Assets Conferences
• Charles Goldstein, Herrick, Feinstein, LLP
• J. Christian Kennedy, U.S. Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues
• Lucille Roussin, Cardozo School of Law

Lecturer: Professor Edith Brown Weiss, Georgetown University

Co-Sponsored by the Canadian Council on International Law and George Washington University Law School

Speaker: Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, Supreme Court of Canada

Co-Sponsored by George Washington University Law School

Moderators:

• David Caron, University of California, Berkley Law
• Lucy Reed, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

Panelists:

• Edith Brown Weiss, Georgetown Law Center
• Charles N. Brower, 20 Essex Street Chambers
• Rosalyn Higgins, Former President of the International Court of Justice
• John Jackson, Georgetown University
• Russell LaMotte, Beveridge & Diamond LLP
• Andreas Lowenfeld, New York University Law School
• Theodor Meron, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
• Hari Osofsky, Washington and Lee University School of Law
• Michael Reisman, Yale Law School
• Stephen M. Schwebel, former President, International Court of Justice
• Allen Weiner, Stanford Law School

Featuring 'Round Midnight Dance Band

This roundtable, featuring interdisciplinary voices from the academy as well as practice, will explore the synergies, tensions and pluralities between and among practices of Islamic law and human rights in Africa in relation to sociolegal change, from points of apparent tension to discourses which elaborate the bases for mutual support.

Moderator: Afua Hirsh, The Guardian, UK

Panelists:

• Clive Baldwin, Human Rights Watch
• Bernard Freamon, Seton Hall University Law School
• Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Wilfrid Laurier University
• Hauwa Ibrahim, Harvard University
• Yushau Sodiq, Texas Christian University

Co-sponsored by the International Environmental Law Interest Group

This panel will look at the results of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is scheduled to take place in December of this year in Copenhagen. It is anticipated that the Parties to the UNFCCC will adopt a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, or at the very least, the broad outline of a successor agreement. Topics to be covered will include: the adequacy of medium/long-term commitments agreed to be Annex I Parties; the adequacy of non-Annex I agreements, if any; the viability of proposals for adaptation, and the future of technology transfers under a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.

Moderator: William C.G. Burns, Center for Environmental Studies - Williams College

Panelists:

• Daniel Bodansky, University of Georgia
• Jeffrey M. Klein, U.S. Department of State
• Ann Petsonk, Environmental Defense Fund

Co-sponsored by the International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Interest Groups

This panel will explore the upcoming ICC Review Conference, including U.S. participation in the Conference, and will provide updates on efforts define the crime of aggression, current Court proceedings, and proposed amendments to the Court's Statute. Panelists will also offer assessments of the Court's performance and will address future U.S. relations with the Court.

Moderator: Leila Sadat, Washington University Law

Panelists:

• William R. Pace, Coalition for the ICC
• Stephen Rapp, U.S. Department of State
• Beatrice Le Fraper du Hellen, International Criminal Court, Office of the Prosecutor
• Christian Wenaweser, Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC

Co-sponsored by the International Economic Law and the Law in the Pacific Rim Region Interest Groups

This panel focuses on the law, politics and policy of China in the global economy. Specifically, it examines recent changes in China's investment and trade relations within Asia, in the developing world, and in the WTO system. It also compares China's role in the creation of international economic law with that of Japan and Korea.

Moderator: Julia Ya Qin, Wayne State University

Panelists:

• Deborah Brautigam, American University School of International Service
• Henry Gao, Singapore Management University
• Saadia Pekkanen, University of Washington, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
• Edmund Sim, Appleton Luff PTE LTD

Co-sponsored by the Private International Law Interest Group

The session will provide a forum for exchange of views with representatives of the US State Dept, the Organization of American States, the Hague Conference, UNIDROIT and UNCITRAL on current developments in private international law, including the new EU regulations and the potential EU common code of contractual obligations.

Moderators:

• Julie Bédard, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
• Maribel Rodríguez Vargas, Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira

Panelists:

• Carl S. Bjerre, University of Oregon
• Henry Gabriel, UNIDROIT
• Rafael Illescas, UNCITRAL
• Keith Loken, US State Department
• Nuria González Martin, American Association of Private International Law
• Guillermo Palao, Universidad de Valencia
• Marta Pertegás, Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law
• John Wilson, OAS Department of International Law

Co-sponsored by the Women in International Law Interest Group

This panel will discuss the receptivity of international mechanisms to the claims of women, and how these mechanisms help constitute notions of justice and feminism. Panelists will take a topical approach by looking at emerging concerns, such as economic rights, gender stereotyping, women and war, and violence against women.

Moderator: Kamari Clarke, Yale University

Panelists:

• Cathy Albisa, National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
• Rebecca Cook, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
• Lisa Crooms, Howard University Law School
• Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin, University of Minnesota Law School

This first gathering of the new Government Attorneys' Interest Group will feature a discussion of the role of lawyers in government and intergovernmental organizations in shaping policy and international relations. Discussion will include comparison of legal adviser roles in different governments, agencies, and organizations; the role of law and lawyers in policy development; and opportunities for the new Interest Group to serve ASIL's government attorney constituents.

Moderators: Kate Gorove, U.S. State Department, and Gavin Hood, UK Embassy

Panelists:

• Judith Miller, Former General Counsel, US Department of Defense
• Peter Taksoe-Jensen, United Nations
• Michael Wood, 20 Essex Street Chambers

How do treaty bodies and international organizations translate international norms across legal and cultural boundaries? Taking a process-oriented approach, this panel will examine the roles of experts, stakeholders, and governments in shaping domestic law through international standard-setting and complaint-resolution procedures in such diverse areas as human rights, labor, and climate change.

Moderator: Celia Goldman, International Monetary Fund Adminstrative Tribunal

Panelists:

• Navraj Ghaleigh, University of Edinburgh
• Susan Deller Ross, Georgetown University Law Center, International Women's Human Rights Clinic
• Ruth Wedgwood, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS and UN Human Rights Committee
• Arnold Zack, Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal